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RIP Aikra Miyazaki

Scriptwriter, Director Akira Miyazaki Passes Away at 84

Wrote for many World Masterpiece Theater anime

Animation News
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By Rafael Antonio Pineda

11/27/2018

Screenwriter and director Akira Miyazaki passed away on
Sunday due to bile duct cancer. He was 84. A funeral service will be held on
Thursday, November 29 with his eldest daughter Momoko as chief mourner.

Miyazaki wrote the scripts for six films in the long-running
Otoko wa Tsurai yo (Being a Man is Tough) film series, and made his directorial
debut with the 1971 film Naite Tamaru ka (As if I'd Cry). He wrote scripts for
numerous anime, including Raccoon Rascal, The Perrine Story, The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer, Kaitō Lupin - 813 no Nazo, Yuki, The Wizard of Oz, Lucy-May of the
Southern Rainbow, Katry, the Cow Girl, Little Women, Botchan, Like the Clouds,
Like the Wind, and Happy Moomin Family.

About Me

Born in Toledo, Ohio in 1946 I have a BA degree in American History from Cal St. Northridge. I've been researching the American West and western films since the early 1980s and visiting filming sites in Spain and the U.S.A. Elected a member of the Spaghetti Western Hall of Fame 2010.